Sometimes it’s amusing to stumble upon the latest centralization/decentralization debate. You could argue technically against centralization, spof, and censorship until you’re blue in the face.

Decentralization is pretty much a solved technical problem, but for very special non–technical reasons everything only gets more centralized from this point onwards :-)

An inquiry about intelligence.

This document defines procedures and messages for SRv6-based BGP services, including Layer 3 Virtual Private Network (L3VPN), Ethernet

YANG (RFC 7950) is a data modeling language used to model configuration data, state data, parameters and results of Remote

Amelia Earhart teaching students in Newark, New Jersey (© Bettmann/Getty Images)

This blog is really really good for robust usage of Nix/NixOS. I stumble upon it every so often. Another excellent blog is “How to Learn Nix” which explores in excruciating detail the painful parts of nix and its documentation. Discovered that one recently.

Elephant hawk-moth on foxglove flower (© David Chapman/Alamy)

nikitonsky: Why just 7? Why not 14 or 100 or, you know, until the end of time? Are computers not powerful enough to do that? What’s the motivation here? And please don’t tell me it’s secure

nikitonsky: Why do numbers go backwards? Is next earlier or later comments? Is it bigger or smaller numbers? So many questions

Our Lady of the Rocks and Saint George Island in the Bay of Kotor, Perast, Montenegro (© Dmitrii Sakharov/Shutterstock)